Sporran Police in Scotland

[auld argonian]

They can have my sporran when they pry it from my cold, dead crotch!

Careful! Remember Edgar in Men In Black..."Your terms are acceptable!"

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[cavscout]

Dooh!

Just one more and then I'll stop


If they outlaw sporrans, then only outlaws will have sporrans!

[Kid Cossack]

Dooh!

Just one more and then I'll stop


If they outlaw sporrans, then only outlaws will have sporrans!

I've always liked this variant:

When they outlaw sporrans . . . then I'll be an outlaw.

[auld argonian]

...and flies too? The world has gone mad...and that's coming from a guy who's a conservationist albeit one who understands the concept of hunting and harvesting a certain percentage of some species.

Pre-existing sporrans should be "grandfathered" in, shouldn't they? I mean, it's not like an antique sporran of the type that Hamish describes is much of a threat to current wildlife...

Daughter and I were laughing while at the fabric store yesterday...the faux fur that they're stocking looked very real and the purse findings were on a rack righ next to them...they had that Victorian design snapping purse closure right there and we were holding it up to the faux fur and conjecturing as to how convincing a sporran we could knock out using the two components. I suppose we'd need a faux certificate for those though...

.....sheeesh!

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[McClef]

How they expect everybody to have paperwork proving it was "killed lawfully" in the past 13 years I have no idea.

Nor how one goes about obtaining such a licence and whether or not visitors as opposed to residents need one.

Are the sporran police going to descend on every establishment in Scotland that makes or sells sporrans to check that all stock meets the legislation before it is sold?

And where do the animals have to have been lawfully killed? If they were lawfully killed in Canada for example would that count?

Retrospective legislation is simply stupid and unfair.

[Mr. MacDougall]

How odd to think that deer are a protected species. In parts of North America, they're considered vermin!

[Woodsheal]

How odd to think that deer are a protected species. In parts of North America, they're considered vermin!

Vermin? You mean venison...!

Deer aren't "protected" in N. America, but they are "controlled" species, i.e., they can only be harvested during set seasons. However, there are no restrictions on the "by products" that I'm aware of, such as hides, antlers, etc. Too bad we don't see more N. American deerhide, elkhide, and moosehide sporrans available....

[Mr. MacDougall]

Too bad we don't see more N. American deerhide, elkhide, and moosehide sporrans available....

Try Craigie: http://www.sporrans.com/

[Nick]

And what are they going to do with all those sporrans they confiscate by people who can't prove the credentials of their sporran? Hang them on the walls of Edinburgh Castle as a warning to others?

[The Frumious B.]

They can have my sporran when they pry it from my cold, dead crotch!

Now I am sprayin' the monitor and I am not even drinking!!!